# lacrima
## Interlingua
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈla.kri.ma/

### Noun

lacrima (plural lacrimas)
* tear (from the eye, usually due to crying)

## Italian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈla.kri.ma/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -akrima
* Hyphenation: là‧cri‧ma

### Etymology 1

From Latin lacrima.

#### Noun

lacrima f (plural lacrime)
* tear (drop of fluid secreted from the eyes)

##### Alternative forms

* lagrima (archaic or poetic)

##### Related terms

* lacrima christi
* lacrimale
* lacrimare
* lacrimatorio
* lacrimazione
* lacrimevole
* lacrimogeno
* lacrimoso

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

lacrima
* inflection of lacrimare:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

### References

* lacrima in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

### Anagrams

* calarmi

## Latin
### Alternative forms

* lacruma, dacrima, dacruma (pre-Classical)
* lacryma, lachryma (post-classical)

### Etymology

From Old Latin dacrima, dacruma, from Proto-Indo-European *dáḱru-, from earlier compound *dr̥ḱ-h₂eḱru- (“eye bitter”).

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈla.kri.ma/, [ˈɫ̪äkrɪmä]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈla.kri.ma/, [ˈläːkrimä]

### Noun

lacrima f (genitive lacrimae); first declension
* (literally) a tear (drop of liquid from crying)
** 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.314:“[...] Per ego hās lacrimās dextramque tuam tē [...].”“I [who] through these tears and [by] your own right hand”
** 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti :'sistite vos lacrimas, ipsa medebor' ait.'Hold back your tears,' she said. 'I will heal him myself.'
* (transferred sense) a tear or gumdrop exuding from plants
* This entry needs quotations to illustrate usage. If you come across any interesting, durably archived quotes then please add them!

#### Inflection

First-declension noun.

#### Derived terms

* lacrimābilis
* lacrimābundus
* lacrimālis
* lacrimātiō
* lacrimō
* lacrimor
* lacrimōsē
* lacrimōsus
* lacrimula

#### Descendants

* Balkan Romance:
** Aromanian: lacãrmã, lacrimã, lacrãmã, lãcrimeauã
** Romanian: lacrămă, lacrimă
* Italo-Romance:
** Istriot: lagrama
** Italian: lacrima, lagrima (archaic or poetic)
** Neapolitan: làcrema, làgrema
** Sicilian: làcrima, làgrima, làrima
* North Italian: (forms with /ɡ/ perhaps borrowed from Italian or Venetan)
** Emilian: làgrima
** Friulian: lagrime
** Lombard: làgrima
** Piedmontese: lerma, larma
** Romansch: larma
** Venetan: łàgrema, làgrema
* Gallo-Romance:
** Catalan: llàgrima
** Franco-Provençal: legrema, lârma
** Old French: lerme, larme
*** French: larme
** Occitan: lagrema (most dialects)
    Auvergnat: larma
    Gascon: larma, lhèrma
    Limousin: grema, gramela, grumilha
    Provençal: lagrima
* Ibero-Romance:
** Aragonese: glarima, lagrima, lacrima
    Ribagorçan: llárima, llágrima, gllárima
** Asturian: llárima, llágrima, llégrima, llérima, llarma
** Old Galician-Portuguese: lagrima, lagrema
*** Galician: lágrima
*** Portuguese: lágrima
** Old Spanish: lagrema, lagrima
*** Ladino: lágrima
*** Spanish: lágrima
* Insular Romance:
** Sardinian: làcrima, làgrima, làmigra
* ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *lacrimizāre (see there for further descendants)

### References

* “lacrima”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “lacrima”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* lacrima in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
* lacrima in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co. (ambiguous) to burst into a flood of tears: lacrimas, vim lacrimarum effundere, profundere (ambiguous) to be bathed in tears: in lacrimas effundi or lacrimis perfundi with tears in one's eyes: lacrimis obortis with many tears: multis cum lacrimis to be unable to speak for emotion: prae lacrimis loqui non posse hence these tears; there's the rub: hinc illae lacrimae (proverb.) (Ter. And. 1. 1. 99; Cael. 25. 61) crocodiles' tears: lacrimae simulatae (ambiguous) to burst into a flood of tears: lacrimas, vim lacrimarum effundere, profundere (ambiguous) to be bathed in tears: in lacrimas effundi or lacrimis perfundi (ambiguous) to be hardly able to restrain one's tears: lacrimas tenere non posse (ambiguous) to move to tears: lacrimas or fletum alicui movere (ambiguous) to find relief in tears: dolorem in lacrimas effundere

## Romanian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈla.kri.ma]

### Noun

lacrima f
* definite nominative/accusative singular of lacrimă

## Spanish
### Verb

lacrima
* inflection of lacrimar:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative